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President Trump Signs COVID Relief Bill, Hopes to Increase Payments to $2,000

President Trump Signs COVID Relief Bill, Hopes to Increase Payments to $2,000

By Yehudit Garmais


   Although President Trump said last week that a $2.3 trillion federal stimulus bill should include for Americans, $2,000 checks and not $600 checks, he signed it today, with the plan that the “House [of Representatives] will vote to increase the payments to Americans to $2,000 per adult and $600 per child.

   “Therefore, a family of four would receive $5,200,” President Trump said in a statement today.

   After the House votes, the president said that the U.S. Senate will begin the process for a vote to increase the stimulus payments to $2,000. 

    Currently, the bill authorizes checks of $600 for Americans who earn up to $75,000 per year and each additional child earns each American family another stimulus payment of $600. 

   As Americans’ salaries increase, the amounts of their stimulus checks decline, and people who make over $95,000 do not receive stimulus checks.

   The stimulus bill also creates a $300 weekly unemployment supplements, and pours money into a forgivable loan program to help small business owners. 

   “I understand that many small businesses have been forced to close as a result of harsh actions by Democrat-run states,” President Trump wrote in a statement today. “Many people are back to work, but my job is not done until everyone is back to work.”

   Last week, President Trump and many social media users had criticized the bill because it nonsensically designated billions of dollars in foreign aid and legislator “pet projects” that have nothing to do with economic relief for Americans amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

  "It is called the COVID relief bill, but it has almost nothing to do with COVID," the President said last week.

   “As President, I have told Congress that I want far less wasteful spending  and more money going to the American people,” said President Trump, who added that he would only “sign the Omnibus and COVID package with a strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed.

   The stimulus bill also, somewhat incongruously, creates new criminal penalties that include prison time for violating copyright laws with online streaming.

   “I will send back to Congress a red-lined version, item by item.” said President Trump, who added that he is formally asking Congress to remove the items that designate excess funds from the bill.

   “I am signing this bill to restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add more for the Paycheck Protection Program, return our airline workers back to work, and add substantially more money for vaccine distribution,” wrote President Trump. “Much more money is coming. I will never give up my fight for the American people.”

(Official White House Photos by. Shealah Craighead)


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